Archive

  • Principal and RGA invests $5m in employee benefits start-up

    25 July 2024

    Zoë Foundry to use the capital to launch a portfolio of companies aimed at the next wave of insurtech growth

  • US lifers to withstand CML losses and downgrades, Fitch says

    20 May 2024

    Despite "immense pressure" on CMLs, particularly offices

  • Prudential Financial lifts stake in chicken restaurant

    03 January 2023

    Insurer added 35% more shares of El Pollo Loco in Q3 last year

  • Post hires Kevin Farley to manage CLOs and structured credit

    16 September 2022

    Previously at Wells Fargo trading CLOs

  • Brace! Brace! Tailspin in US variable annuity insurer shares revealed

    28 January 2022

    Airline stocks landed hard as the pandemic unfolded - but VA insurers plunged close behind

  • Principal Global Investors closed $750m of private lending deals in 2021

    21 January 2022

    Aims to double business this year with new hires and expanded deal count

  • US life insurers increase risky assets across the board

    17 November 2021

    Insurers holding as much as 53% in illiquids, according to Moody's

  • COMMENT: Hedge fund activists - new, unlikely allies in insurers' climate fight?

    04 June 2021

    Patient insurers and agitating activists once sat at opposite ends of the shareholding spectrum. Climate change might be changing that.

  • Insurers report $8.7bn investment losses in COVID-19 infected Q1

    04 May 2020

    Reported damage still coming as many European, US insurers expected to report this month

  • US insurers in strong position to ride out real estate slump

    01 April 2020

    Expected 15% to 20% rental decline in properties